THE GROWNING EFFECT: A MARATHON OF GROWTH AND LEARNING

Paresh Swain

2024年3月 · Notion Press

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Faaz Nigam, the protagonist, is a thorough professional working in the corporate world and knows how to focus on assignments and projects and get the desired results. He finds himself out of favour and gets entangled in the world of favouritism for some unknown reason and decides to move on. Out of nowhere, he is offered a new and challenging project by the senior management for which he needs to work with six recruits of the organisation and deliver a project for WinKart. Since no other company has ever delivered the project on time, a lot is at stake.
Faaz, who is personally undergoing a transition from a not-so-good experience in his previous role, moved away from his family leaving behind his wife Suhaana and six-month-old prince Ruhaan. This is a non-fictional piece of work on how Eleena, Rohan, Devender, Idhaant, Nachiketa, Tejas and Faaz travel through the journey of seven months, running the marathon of tasks, assignments, processes, controls, client interactions, interpersonal challenges, reviews and in the process learn and grow moment-by-moment and day-by-day and together overcome external challenges and internal conflicts—the biggest of all being the mental blocks of each one of them, clashing within and among them.
 In the end, they all complete the marathon of finishing the prestigious project against all odds. What remains to be seen is if Faaz Nigam, remains as inspiring till the end as he was in the beginning and finds himself Or, will he get consumed in the corporate world and lose himself?.

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Paresh is passionate about capability development and coaching and comes to us with perspectives like they hold the universe's secrets. Hailing from a modest and humble family with shades of bright and dark phases in early childhood, he moved from corporate to corporate and from rank to rank with experiences and learning and was known for his man-management skills. "Choose love over power, always." It strikes as one good advice for all. From Software Education, he embarked upon a career in Life Insurance in Sales and then in Training, Learning & Development. After over 26 years of empowering trainers and teams in the learning and development world, Paresh's empathy and curiosity flows naturally. He is an avid learner with certifications ranging from neuroscience, project planning to financial planning with emotional intelligence being his favourite field of interest. When asked ‘Who are you?’, Paresh will quickly respond, ‘Lifetime Learner’. Reading is an unexpected passion for someone typically on-the-go but for Paresh, books have been a lifeline since his youth. He remembers saving up money earned from painting, writing certificates with his calligraphic skills for the treasured title and holding the crisp pages, diving into new worlds - made all the difference. Running, on the other hand, was never expected to be his passion. When he was medically challenged for running, he laced up and running became a self-affirming ritual. Paresh talks of running marathons with a glint of pride in his eyes. So, if you ever meet Paresh, ask him for reading recommendations and be prepared for some motivating marathon stories as well. When Paresh was asked to describe his writing process, he answered in two simple words: "I Run." He adds, “When you can run, why walk?” While most writers prefer solitude, Paresh prefers to go for a run to spark his creativity. “It’s around the fifth mile where I'm tired but not exhausted, zeroed in but not zoned out," he said. By seventh mile, words would come together to form sentences and paragraphs. "As soon as I get home, I have to write them down!" he laughs. So, there you have it – Paresh is on a journey now as a writer which is a departure from his traits as Coach and Leader and his passion for running. It is all coming together with all his heart in his first book, The Growning Effect.